The Imminent Festivities

Sigh... Monday blues indeed...
I was really looking forward to being on leave the whole of this week but alas last minute call for a meeting meant I had to cancel the leave less it will be wasted to just come to the office for a couple of hours. Everywhere else, all my friends, had one week COMPULSORY leave. All for the festivities of Deepavali and Eid Mubarak. Just had the meeting and it was nothing much..what an unproductive day. Network even shut-down in protest..we must be really overworking the servers. Either that or the whole of TMNET's Streamyx along with their servers are on holiday.

So here I am on a Monday lunch hour with so much free time to spare. Feelin really lazy to be productive on a day I am supposed to be on leave. In any case, just kinda hate it when people complain about things (myself included). I mean people complain about the workload that they currently have but not realize that almost everyone else is on the same boat if not worst. I once heard someone giving an advice: if you think you are poor, there is a whole world that are poorer than you and if you think you are rich, there is a whole world that are richer than you..same goes with work, life, love, your fat cat.... ok ok, no relation to that last point.

Oh well...was forwarded this mail couple of months back (no doubt pretty old and has been circulated for quite a bit) and thought of including the contents in this post as something to ponder about..

Cup or Water?

A group of working adults got together to visit their University lecturer.
The Lecturer was happy to see them. Conversation soon turned into complaints about stress in work and life.

The Lecturer just smiled and went to the kitchen to get an assortment of cups - some porcelain, some in plastic, some in glass, some plain looking and some looked rather expensive and exquisite.

The Lecturer offered his former students the cups to get drinks for themselves.

When all the students had a cup in hand with water, the Lecturer spoke: "If you noticed, all the nice looking, expensive cups were taken up, leaving behind the plain and cheap ones. While it is normal that you only want the best for yourselves, that is the source of your problems and stress. What all you wanted was water, not the cup, but we unconsciously went for the better cups."

"Just like in life, if Life is Water, then the jobs, money and position in society are the cups. They are just tools to hold/maintain Life, but the quality of Life doesn't change."

"If we ONLY concentrate on the cup, we won't have time to enjoy the water in it."